Community and Global Health

The CGH Concentration

Required core:

HDSR 210 Contemporary Issues in Public Health
CGHL 120 Epidemiology & Global Health

Four Additional Electives, at least one chosen from each of the following categories:

Natural sciences and quantitative reasoning

ANSO 212 Quantitative Analysis
BIOL 322 General and Medical Microbiology
BIOL 482 Topics in Advanced Medical Microbiology
MATH 260 or 261 Applied Statistics or Biostatistics (preferred)
SEMN 207 Antibiotics and Global Health
SEMN 244 Infectious Diseases and Global Health

Social and cultural determinants of health

ANSO 110 Medicine and Society
ANSO 225 Sex and Sexualities
ANSO/SEMN 255 You Are What You Eat
ANSO 320 States, Bodies, and Epidemics
HDSR 390 HDSR Junior Seminar
PHIL 305 Biomedical Ethics
PSYC 295 Drugs, Addiction, and Behavior
SEMN 220 Chinese Food Culture
SEMN 403 Global Violence
SPAN 205 Culture of Health and Disease in the Hispanic Community

Public policy

ECON 225 Economics of Developing Countries
ECON 235 Environmental and Resource Economics
POLS 270 Politics of the European Union
POLS 310 Women, States, and NGO''s
POLS 330 Politics of the Holocaust

Experiential Requirement

The MJUS Institute for Service Learning has built many health-related community partnerships and there are currently some limited opportunities for health-related ICRPs abroad. Students will be required to incorporate at least one experiential component into their concentration.